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Please Look After Mom

Please Look After Mom

Author(s): Kyung-Sook Shin

Location(s): Seoul

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): early 2000s

When sixty-nine year old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, and vanishes, their children are consumed with loud recriminations, and are awash in sorrow and guilt. As they argue over the “Missing” flyers they are posting throughout the city – how large of a reward to offer, the best way to phrase the text – they realize that none of them have a recent photograph of Mom. Soon a larger question emerges: do they really know the woman they called Mom?

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